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Old 2nd September 2012, 08:44 AM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Sorted.

Fuse had blown as predicted. Main fuse panel, carrier 5 (brown, well orange really), Fuse 1, 10A.

Looking at the wiring of the 3 lights in the boot, the 2 in the roof have only one insulated connector, presumably on the basis that the other is earthed to the chassis anyway. But the sill one has both insulated, don't know why.
That was the one I was playing with and I was using a screwdriver to lever things out, so I probably shorted it out. I'll be more careful next time.

Funny things was, some of the LED's worked dimly for a short while then faded. I can only assume there was some residual charge in capacitors in the controller - enough for LED's but probably not filament bulbs.
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